Raaaage

I've had alot of things to rage about over the past few days. Let me share them with you.


Party invite, less than 30 mins in people just leave without any warning and we end up disbanding (after dragging one other poor person out to the camp). I had a 50 min wait on my warp club, and the RDM had already left so no chance of a teleport. :|

Earlier today:

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Also much fun was had camping Bloodsucker. Not only does it pop in an area where there is nowhere safe from aggro, it also shares the name with every mob down there. And links. There are alot of links. So many that it is impossible to fight the NM alone, because it will be surrounded by 291048091 other leeches at any one time.



We've been there for 2 spawns. The first was a 3 hour camp (apparantly 21~24 hours after maintenance) of me spamming widescan and dodging leeches. When it finally showed up (it would have been up for 7 seconds max before I saw it), we got there to see it a NIN soloing it (without links somehow...) who had arrived minutes earlier. How he found it without widescan is beyond me.

The second time we knew the EXACT spawn time, and had located it a second after it poped. We arrive to find more people figting it (this group may have had widescan though).

More raging will ensue if the people who got it the 2nd time told others the ToD. They were a bunch of assholes though.


On a lighter note, I've finished my SL assaults. First I did Wake the Puppet which was a pretty easy trio (although it was a bit fussy getting the hang of it) we only escorted the bare minimum amount of puppets (4/6) then exited to get it done. All 6 could be done with 3 people once you have the hang of it.

Second assault (Operation: Black Pearl) was a bit harder.



Having to protect paper-thin NPCs (they take 1 hit to die) from countless large waves of mobs accompanied by the occasional level 75 Troll, until a Troll NM (who is quite tough) shows up and you have to intercept him before he reaches the Princess in the middle. It's pretty easy for the most part, the mobs are really weak (could barely get through phalanx) and take very little damage, but the hard part is watching out for the NM while fighting because if he reaches the middle, you auto-fail. I caught the NM with Blind, then set the melee on him, while 1 DD kept killing the waves (they didn't stop coming after the NM) and I rounded them up on me with Diaga while the BLM -aga nuked them until she died. :3

Not sure how neccessary this is, because I don't know if the normal mobs can kill the princess. If they can, it was very close as they nearly got to her. I didn't get a screenshot at the end because things were all over the place, it got very hectic.

I feel my rage has dissipated slightly...well, back to seeking.